--- title: Lemurs are not monkeys but an older branch of the primate family, an… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar · tree and pragmatics description: Lemurs are not monkeys but an older branch of the primate family, and in King Julien's real groups it is the females, not a king, who are in charge and eat first. Who acts: Lemurs, family, king. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lemurs, family, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.lesson:1 # text = Lemurs are not monkeys but an older branch of the primate family, and in King Julien's real groups it is the females, not a king, who are in charge and eat first. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Lemurs lemur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 monkeys monkey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 8 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 primate primate NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 16 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:desc _ _ 17 Julien Julien PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 females female NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 charge charge NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 acl:relcl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 36 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Lemurs | monkeys but a older branch of the primate family and Julien King's real groups and the females | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | family | the females | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | a king | | | charge | | | tree rules | | 4 | **eat** | present | a king *not said here* | | | | | first *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:086-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar.lesson:1`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/0/) - next →: [The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/)